"New York newspapers just published the evaluation rankings of
New York City teachers based on student test scores. A good deal of
anger is being directed their way for publishing the results. Although I
abhor what the newspapers are doing, much of the anger, I believe is
misplaced. This was the inevitable conclusion of an evaluation system,
created by folks who knew, or should have known, that the publication of
such numbers was the most likely outcome. New York teachers and their
principals should brace themselves because with the new state-wide
evaluation system, this will probably be a yearly event.
The publication of evaluation scores should not come as a surprise to
anyone, including Bill Gates, because it is allowed by the law. It had
already occurred in Los Angeles. One would hope that after the tragedy
in Los Angeles, when a teacher took his own life, apparently due in part to despondence over the release of his score, our leaders would have paused in their crusade to reduced teachers to numbers. Sadly, this did not occur.
Public disclosure was one of the many reasons why principals opposed the creation of individual numbers for teachers based on test scores.
We argued for a school-wide achievement goal instead. Although an
achievement goal number based on scores could be publicly available, it
would be a school score that all educators would work to achieve, not an
individual score that would result in the humiliation of an individual
educator. It is also why we suggested that the final evaluation not be a
numerical score, which would be subject to public disclosure, as noted
by Robert Freeman of the State Committee on Open Government. See here.
Evaluation should be about educator improvement, not dismissal. If the
dismissal of ineffective educators is a process that is too cumbersome,
then we should reform dismissal laws."
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